Books by Lawrence Hill
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English
review 1: This is a brutal, but beautiful story of Meena and her struggle through slavery and the escape to Freedom. While this story is a fictional account, the details and writing is so expressive that I felt the whole time that it was real. The events of course are real and the author...
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English
review 1: Beautifully written, though it felt a bit long at times. I would recommend.
review 2: Amazing book... turns out that in Canada it is called "The Book of Negroes"
review 2: Amazing book... turns out that in Canada it is called "The Book of Negroes"
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English
review 1: I've passed by this book countless times while browsing the shops. I remember wanting to read it but being dissuaded from picking it up by a friend. I should not have listened. This book is beautiful. A historical fiction, it tells the story of Aminata Diallo, a young girl kidnap...
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English
review 1: This book chronicles the life of a woman through being kidnapped from Africa, then taken to America to become a slave, to getting out of slavery and her experiences as a marginalized woman throughout the 18th and 19th Centuries. This would be a great book for a novel study in a h...